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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4h

Have literally done exactly that on that specific road so your comment is more accurate than you could know.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 7h

Refreshing to see someone doing local journalism based on researching facts rather than just mouthing off on social media.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 7h

Locking the replies on this post because (self included) what the fuck was I thinking posting about power sockets on trains on Bluesky given the average male user on this site.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 8h

tfw you’re launching state of the art trains with no USBC, even though it would cost a few quid per train to change the faceplate at this stage

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 17h

My response to this is equal parts "wow, the ingenuity that capitalism produces" and "OH MY FUCKING GOD"

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 20h

Just opened Bluesky after cursing St Pancras while getting a buggy past a broken lift, and this was the top post. So goes all ways!

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

Famously, as every northern school kid was wrongly taught, where Hitler wanted to base his post invasion HQ.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

Gracie Fields! Cyril Smith! Other Rochdale people I don’t want to look up on Wikipedia! You took a mild beating!

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

Flipside is it’s weird that I’m just learning about this from this post. (A former cathedral employee writes: yeah god I can imagine how this happened.)

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

Ok the irony is I actually was about to get in touch with you about a story but now I just have to write “thanks dad”.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

Would you say that the piece you’re referring to is this one and that I’m needlessly trying to think of an excuse to reply to you so I can gain possibly one or two subscribers by linking to it in the comments to this post?

www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Your upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

It goes both ways!

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bryce.lol @bryce.lol · 2d

Slowly but surely, the market is moving towards my food delivery model: a transit van full of ping meals and a microwave.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

this is a slur, Janan has never written a line as good as this, which I think about most days. www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d

Lol US vs UK libel law.

Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 3d

Judge Jeannette Vargas said the lyrics in Lamar’s Not Like Us, which refers to Drake as a “certified paedophile”, were a matter of opinion, which could not be “actionable defamation”.

on.ft.com/4ojA6pH Judge throws out rapper Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar ‘diss’ track

Judge throws out rapper Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar ‘diss’ track

[FREE TO READ] Jeannette Vargas’s judgment says ‘Not Like Us’, which calls the Canadian singer a paedophile, was a statement of opinion

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4d

The pan fairy liquid one is great, almost as enjoyably trashy as the girlfriend.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4d

Ironically I had it explained to me for the first time this week, in an old-style pub, by someone involved in the business rates evasion business.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4d

also the covid-era planning reform of "turn any empty shop into a micro pub" thing is also cocking up the old cost-heavy pub base.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 4d

We have done! www.londoncentric.media/i/168467673/...

Why can't anyone stop the fundraisers outside London stations?

Inside Success and WeRBlighty have broken the law with their fundraising activities. So why are they are allowed to continue operating outside the capital's busiest railway stations?

www.londoncentric.media

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

Intercity livery zooming past and belching cooling towers, be still my 90s heart.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

Among London white collar professionals with two small kids earning £100k+ it is a double tax dodge. If you earn, say, £105k then a £5k e-bike reduces your income to get nursery subsidies worth £12k/kid. So buy a £5k bike for £1900 and gain £24k of nursery. You’re up £22k and got a free cargo bike.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

A Hiplok d1000 at £200, laka insurance at £20-30 a month, backpedal’s recovery team for a tenner a month and I’m happy to leave it at central london stations for days on end. Cycle onto the platform at King’s Cross, chuck kids direct from bike seat onto train, lock bike on platform.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

Why don’t they? No reliable second hand market?

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 5d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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